Items Tagged with 'single-family rental market'

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Texas-based Amherst Residential has been betting big on the single-family rental market, scooping up millions of dollars' worth of properties across the U.S. to build a portfolio of more than 23,000 homes. Amherst's latest acquisition includes 2,400 properties located in multiple states and closed in a series of transactions totaling $404.1 million. And it seems the company isn't done spending just yet.

Have you ever wanted to start investing in single-family rentals but couldn’t secure a mortgage or scrape together enough capital to buy a property outright? Or you were apprehensive about being a landlord? Well, now, there’s a new way to invest in single-family rental: buying just a piece of the property.

Fresh off completing its acquisition of OwnAmerica, one of the country’s largest investment marketplaces for single-family rentals, Renters Warehouse, is making a change in its management structure. Renters Warehouse, a property management company that specializes in managing single-family rentals, announced recently that it is promoting David Sommer from executive vice president of operations to chief operating officer.

American Homes 4 Rent, FirstKey Homes, Front Yard Residential, Invitation Homes, Progress Residential, and Tricon American Homes are offering the option of deferring their rent payment with no late fees to any of their residents who are among the approximately 800,000 federal workers who are either furloughed or working without pay because of the federal government shutdown.

Renters Warehouse, a property management company that specializes in managing single-family rentals, can now also offer investors a platform for buying and selling single-family rentals after the company completed its acquisition of OwnAmerica.

Renters Warehouse, a property management company that specializes in managing single-family rentals, is set to expand its SFR business, as the company announced Tuesday that it is acquiring OwnAmerica, one of the country’s largest investment marketplaces for single-family rentals.

Roofstock, a platform for buying and selling single-family rental homes, is offering a unique carrot to try to entice investors to use its platform to buy a property: guaranteed rent. Roofstock announced Tuesday that it is rolling out what it calls an “industry-leading” guarantee that provides up to 12 months of rent on a vacant property purchased through the company’s platform.

Over the last year or so, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac both expanded their presence in the single-family rental market, with both of the GSEs beginning to fund single-family rental investments for larger players in the market. But that expansion is about to end.

Front Yard Residential, the company formerly known as Altisource Residential, is planning a significant expansion of its single-family rental business and is forking over more than $500 million to do it. Here's the full breakdown of the company's next big move.

Commentary

With the recent turnover in leadership at the Federal Housing Finance Agency, we may be standing at the precipice of great change in the government’s role in supporting the mortgage market through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.